Steve Kanellakos detailed a catalogue of bad calls, starting with then Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly’s initial assessment that the several hundred trucks that arrived on Friday, January 28th, would be gone by the following Wednesday.
This, despite police receiving notification from local hotels that Freedom Convoy organizers were looking for accommodation for 10 to 15,000 people, possibly until April. It was also well known by that stage that the convoy had raised $5 million to finance a long stay in the capital.
Regardless, after Mayor Jim Watson and his staff reviewed the first weekend, they were relatively sanguine.
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